The Left-supported trade unions took out a procession to mark May Day today. Labour Day celebrations began from the union office in Landour and ended at Gandhi Chowk in here today. The workers also demanded the implementation of the new labour policy in the state.…

Various organisations came out in support of the agitating members of Rockman Industries and Satyam Auto Component who were arrested by the police and had been put in Sidhowala jail. These employees are observing a fast. Eleven of them, who had been on a fast…

Three hundred workers of Haridwar-based Rockman Industries Limited, a company of Hero Auto group, gathered at Parade Ground here today to hold a protest against the suspension of three of their co-workers for attempting to float an employees’ union on the factory premises. However, they…

In a court case stemming back to 2005, labour abuses were an issue at Baba Ramdev’s pharmaceutical company. While the yog guru is on an anti-corruption poll-bound states yatra, at his home state in Uttarakhand he has been found to be violating the agreement between…

NDTV Correspondent, Updated: January 31, 2011 10:33 IST Khatima (Uttarakhand): India may have taken strides in developments, but even today, high in the mountains of Kumaon in Uttarakhand, women are employed to lift human excreta on their head. For years, Lakshmi has been doing this…

Tribune News Service Dehradun, September 7 Employees and trade unions of various national and private banks, trade unions of both the CPI and the CPM, the Indian National Trade Union Congress, Uttarakhand Joint Trade Union, Centre of Indian Trade Union and Employees Union of SIDCUL,…

Press Trust of India, Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 0027 hrs IST Dehradun: Uttarakhand is likely to pass the much-awaited Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, setting the stage for private companies like RIL and ITC to get into contract farming in the state and…

Government Brands Them “Anti-Development” Liberation, 24 July 2007 The industrial area demarcated by the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal Ltd. (SIDCUL) in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, may not be an SEZ – but it is certainly a ‘special’ new type of ‘integrated’ industrial estate – the…